Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 May 2001 00:57:54 +0200 (CEST) | From | Martin Josefsson <> | Subject | Re: [OFF-TOPIC] 4 ports ETH cards |
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On Wed, 30 May 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
[snip] > Just got three of these suckers and I'm about to order a bunch > more (happy camper)...
yes the Dlink DFE570-TX is a very nice card indeed.
[snip] > Because the D-Link cards were less than half of the nearest > competitor [ < $180 vs > $360 for others and Compac was > $2400! ] I > ordered only three not knowing for sure if they would work. Turned on > the tulip driver and them suckers fired right up. Now I know they work, > stock, right out of the box, and I can order a bunch more for the lab > I'm working with.
I use those cards in all routers here and they work extremely well. But I don't use the standard vanilla tulip driver that's in the official kernel. I use an optimized version that handled high traffic volumes much better, it decreases the interrupt-load quite a lot. (this driver is about to be merged with the standard tulip driver IIRC) I havn't had any problems with these cards so I can really recommend them.
/Martin
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